Among the many interesting accounts of the journey down to Dixie during the 1860s,is that of Elizabeth Walker.  In her diary she said:“that when they reached the south end of the Great Salt Lake Valley,the Captain of the company went through all the wagons [...]

He was hearing a myriad of sounds…voices,murmurs and whispers,but there was no one around.  The next story comes from the 1870s.  This was the time that large timbers were being freighted from Mount Trumbull to St. George for use in the building the Temple.  Over [...]

The southern apex of the Kaibab Plateau is within the boundaries of the Grand Canyon National Park . The Native Indian word “Kaibab”means “Mountain Lying Down.” Some 30 miles south of Jacob Lake on Arizona Road 67 is the boundaries of the Grand Canyon.  This road winds though ponderosa pines with periodical [...]

On August 6,1904,five or six wagon-loads of citizens gathered on the Hurricane Bench to witness a dirty stream of water pour life onto the desert soil of southwestern Utah.  The event marked the culmination of eleven years of tedious manual labor by some of the remnants of Brigham Young’s Cotton Mission [...]

A woman on the opposite side of the law than Annie Oakley was Belle Starr,famous Wild West Woman.  Myra Belle Smiley Starr,was born in 1848,in Carthage,MO.  She was well educated and excelled at many school subjects.  Her father was a wealthy innkeeper and her mother was related to the [...]